Rare Antique American Pewter #22 TBM \"Sparking\" or Nurse Whale Oil Finger Lamp For Sale

$Rare Antique American Pewter #22 TBM \$
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Rare Antique American Pewter #22 TBM \"Sparking\" or Nurse Whale Oil Finger Lamp:
$225.00

This rare early American saucer-based, so-called \"sparking\" or nurse whale oil lamp is marked \"T.B.M. Co.\" for the Taunton Britannia Manufacturing Company of Taunton, Mass. (1830-1836) and the pattern no. 22. Measuring only 1 3/4\" in height to its burner, this is the smallest type of marked whael-oil pewter lamp known, manufactured by one of the earliest and finest American makers of pewter lamps. This example is in very good condition, with a proper, ear;ly brass burner & threads and a single-wick brass wick tube. TBM was, of course, one of the predecessor firms of Reed & Baon.
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